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The coaching leads to the recruiting. But you can't have a Benford or a Trilli that can only recruit well, but not know Xs and Os and rotations as well.

They all have one giant advantage--their administrations care about sports. We make our teams go play on the road so we can serve fajitas for a faculty appreciation luncheon, where the faculty were happier to win a free parking space than winning free season football tickets for 7 home games.

Maybe you can help me out, but I heard one of the assistants giving an interview on the radio and he sounded soooo much like Ross Hodge. His speak patterns and what he was saying. Would that be Herl or Forte?

Some of y'all are pointing to coach-torch-passing from times beyond the Wild Wild West that is unlimited transfers and NIL. We can't stamp our feet and say PROMOTE FROM WITHIN BECAUSE IT HAS WORKED!! We're staring a 2nd straight year of a complete rebuild unless the new coach can convince BLo, Grant, & Jasper (if he has eligibility) to stay. Coach McCasland was able to convince Wooly, Zach, & Mo to stay, and they were incredibly instrumental in our early success! Maybe a new guy can do the same. Remember Coach Hodge was under McCasland pre-UNT. That's 7+ years of tutelage under an incredible motivator. As we're seeing now in Lubbock the past 2 years, the defensive tenacity was not necessary for McCasland to win... He can motivate a rec team to believe they're better than the Dream Team & play like it. Likewise, as we've seen in Denton the past 2 years, Coach Hodge can motivate as well (likely picked up a lot of those nuances from Mac), however, the defensive mentality is HIS. Who says Coach Herl fully-subscribes to Coach Hodge's defensive identity? Maybe he wants to run the floor more? Maybe he wants to play aggressive transition-style offense instead of the methodical offense we've seen over the past few years? Did he glean enough off of Hodge in his 2 years here (much different than Hodge's 7years under Mac!) to really keep it going? There's no way we can know that.

That's a lot of underwhelming at a time where we need fan and student engagement more than ever. Maybe Thin Wren needs an Asst AD?